Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 January 1894 — Page 2

SHw 3?ifee Cmmtg gjwwflral II- McC. STOOPS, Edito - and Proprietor- * PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. . Gov. McKinley of Ohio was sworn in for a second term on the Sth. The American painter Charlea Sprague Pearce, and Dr. Gustav Mouraille, of New York, b.ave been made - chevaliers of the French Legion ol • Honor. /’ * The executive com mittee of the Republican national committee adopted resolutions, on the 12fyh, favoring the admission into the Union of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Alfred John Monsidn, who was recently tri^d at Edinburgh on the charge /of killing Lieut. Hambrough and who was,.discharged on a verdict of “not proven,” is going to give a series of lectures. ---- Seven rioters were killed and many wounded during an atl-aek, on the 10th, on the office of the mayor of Cora to, a city of the province of Beri, Italy, by the soldiers called out to quell the disturbance. The claim of Hattie A. Sniffiri, of St. "Paul, Minn., for t*2S6,000, against the New York Life Insurance Co., was settled, on the «th, by the head accountant from New York and the injunction was dismissed.

It has .been discovered that Wm. Ballard* the old miner of Alder Gulch, Mont., who died in San Francisco-in-testate a few weeks ago, and was supposed to be a poor man, has left a fortune of over $500,000. After several month of three-quar-ters time, the great Disston saw works at Tacony, Pa., started up full-handed and on full time on tlae 8th. This big establishment ^employs all the way from 1,500 to 2,000 men. The steamer Gaelic sailed from San Francisco for Uong Kong, on the 9th, carrying among her, passengers a band of sixty-two Chinese, who were captured while attempting to cross the border line from Mexico. A rough estimate places the loss in the World’s fair buildings burned on the night of the 8th at about $800,000. No estimate of the loss on the exhibits can be given until the: cases containing the stored goods are examined. Advices were received at Cape Town, South Africa, on the 8th, that a post runner arriving at Palapyo had reported that fifteen members of the Bectiuanaland police had been killed near Inyat No particulars were given. On the 11th the senate committee on commerce ordered an adverse report on the nomination of Scott Harrison, brother of ex-President Harrison, nominated Decehaber 12 last to be surveyor of customs at Kansas Citv, Mo. In the 23-inch mill of the Carnegie steel mill at Homestead, Pa.,the experiment of rolling 6-inch beams from aluminum for government vessels was -•commenced, on the 8 th, with only partial success. Better results are expected ui later trials. Jm 'he house committee on coinage, \jjfeights and measures, on the 12th, ordered a favorable report on the Bland bill providing for the coinage of the silver bullion now held in the treasury. The vote was 9 to 8—strictly silver and anti-silver. Mr. Reed will close the tariff debate for the republicans on the afternoon of the 27th. Mr. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means committee, will perform a similar service for the democratic majority. The vote on the bill will be taken on the 29th. Fire broke out in the hoisting works of-a mine in Grass Valley, Cal.,.on the 9th, imprisoning seventy-eight miners 2,000 feet below the surface. The wildest excitement prevailed throughout the town. The miners finally escaped by climbing 2,000 feet up a perdenpicular air shaft * ' -

William Mahan and Samuel Morgan, farmers, aged about 85 years, living on adjoining farms near French Lick, Ind., met in the road, on the 9th, when a quarrel over the settlement of some business affairs resulted in an impromptu duel, in which both were mortally wounded. Gen. Campos has been instructed by the Spanish government to demand from Mulley Hassan the'punishment of the Riflian chiefs w ho attacked Melilla, and to maintain sufficient troops in the vicinity ofthe Spanish territory to compel the tribesmen to respect the Spanish authority. \ About sixty persons were thrown '■'> Into Newton creek, on the night of the 12th, by the collapse of a section o:E the temporary drawbridge over the creek connecting Barley avenue, Laurel Hill, with Meeker avenue, Brooklyn, and five missing persons are thought * to have ’been drowned. Signor.jCrispi, the Italian prime minister, and other members of the cabine t were present at the farewell banquet given in Rome, on the 10th, in honor of Hon. Wm. Potter, the retiring American minister. Signor Crispi and other miinisters expressed the friendliest feeling for the United States. The latest important news from Honolulu is to' the effect that while the members of the provisional government wgre divided as to whether Minister Willis is authorized#to use force for the restoration of ex-Queen Lilioukalani, preparations were being made tio withstand a siege. Two •thousand gallons of water had been stored in iron tanks in the judiciary building, the executive building being supplied from an artesian well on the premises.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS HI BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 8th. the death of Sirs. C ockrell, wife of Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, was feelingly referred to in the chaplain's opening prayer. Numerous remonstrances a gainst the proposed reductions of the Wilson tariff bill were presented and referred. The remainder of the day was taken up in the discussion of the various phases of the Hawaiian ^nestion......In the house, the democrats having finally secured a quorum. Mr. Boutelles Hawaiian resolution was laid on the table and the report of the committee on rales governing the debate an the Wilson tariff bill was adopted and the bill was taken up, Mr. Wilson delivering the opening address. Ik the senate, on the Mh. Mr. Lodge presented a petition asking an inquiry into the violations «f the eight-hour law. Other unimportant matters occupied the morning hour, and at 2:29 the senate proceeded to the consideration of the house bill to repeal the federal elections law..In the house, after the call of committees for reports (without results)* the house went into committee of the whole and Mr. Wilson resumed and finished his speech on the tariff bill. He was followed by Messrs Burrows. Bryan, Black and Hopkins, when the committee arose and the house adjourned. Ik the seuate, on the 10th, the only thing of Interest, aside from a discussion of the question why public buildings for which appropriations had been made had not been commenced, Was a speech by Mr. Darla (Minn.) criticising the action of Mr. Blount and the administration and defending the overthrow of Queen Lilioukalaai’s government and commending the action of Minister Stevens......In the house Mr. Boutelle raised another question of privilege, which was discussed at some length, when, ufter some routine business had been transacted, the house went into committee of the whole on the tariff bllL

In the senate, on the llth, several bills or secondary importance were taken up and passed, and at the conclusion of the morning business, at 1 p. m., Mr. Davis took the floor and resumed and concluded his speech on Mr. Frye’s resolution declaring the policy of nonintervention in the governmental affairs of Hawaii. He spoke two hours, and was followed by Mr. Turpie.In the house, after the disposal of routine business, the house went into committee of the whole on the Wilson tariff bill, consideration of whioh occupied the entire day and the night session. In the senate, on the 12th, petitions for and against the Wilson tariff bill were presented. A resolution was adopted calling upon the secretary 6f the treasury to inform the senate from what source or sources the gold coin of the country- (outsido of the treasury! was increased to the amount of $86,869,000. A lengthy executive session was held, after which the senate adjourned.In the house the Hitt resolution, requesting the president to transmit further information touching Hawaiian affairs, was laid on the table and the house went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Consideration of the house bill for the repeal of the federal elections law was begun in the senate on the 9th. Its passage is only a question of time. The Sugr.r trust advanced prices, on the 9th, a quarter of a cent on all grades. Mrs. M. E. Lease has formed a partnership with Cyrus Corning, editor of the New Era, a new paper, and will soon begin the publication of a populist daily in Topeka, Kas. The paper, while advocating populist principles, will wage a relentless war against Gov. Lewelling and the entire state administration. The Starr piano works at Richmond, Ind., were entirely destroyed by fire on the 10th. The immense buildings burned like tinder. The loss is $100,000, with an insurance of $80,000. The works will probably be rebuilt. One hundred men will be rendered idle. The factory of the Winsted (Conn.) edee-tool works resumed operations on the 9th, after being idle several months. Thq Strong Manufacturing Co., the Winstead Hosiery Co. and the Winsted Silk Co., have also started up, after varying periods of idleness. On the evening of the 10th five men held up the Hannibal & St. Joseph fast train “Eli,” 4 miles east of St Joseph, Mo., and robbed the express and mail cars. They placed torpedoes on the track and swung a red lantern to stop the train. The amount secured by the robbers was not stated. When the French chamber of deputies met on the 11th, it at once proceeded to the election of officers. M. Dupuy, who was elected president of the chamber at the last session in succession to M. Casimir-Perier, who succeeded M. Dupuy as prime minister, was elected president. Three hundred and fifty-seven members looted. M. Dupuy received 290 of the votes cast The radicals abstained from voting. Both legs of Charles Bennett the noted baseball catcher, who was mangled by a Santa Fe train at WellsviUe, Kas., on the 10th, have been ampu

tated, one near the ankle and the other above the knee. He may recover. The United States commission of the Antwerp exposition has announced that the space reserved for the United States exhibits, instead, of being, as heretofore, distributed through several buildings, will be consolidated in a portion of the main building immediately adjacent to the American building. , Unknown dynamite fiends blew up Pincus Gan’s tailor shop at, 54 Avenue D, New York, on the 11th. Their intent was evidently to blow up the whole tenement. Dynamite was found soaked in kerosene, with powder trains laid in the alley. One exploded bomb is in the hands of the police. The Dalton gang plundered the post office at the town of Clarkson, Okla., on the 10th, taking all the stamps and money aqd a wagon load of provisions. A heavy shock of earthquake, lasting ten seconds, was felt at several points in the province of Quebec on the evening of the 11th. t The National Bank of Mexico was robbed, on the 9th, of a bag of silver weighing neaHv seventy pounds and containing fS.OOOy which a young man walked into the Nwnk. picked up and carried off before tlin eyes of bank officials and employes, making good his escape. United States Marshal Habtell on the 11th, arrested J. A. Mack, alias Jos. F. Morgan, at Cleveland, O., who, about six months ago, embezzled be-* tween $14,000 and $15,000 from the American national bank of Kansas City. It is said that Mack had made good the amount embezzled, but was afterward arrested on a charge of Violating the United State|sbankyiglawifnd jumped his bond.

The Pen >ke*s and Gogebic consolidated mip s, owned by the Colbys, Rockefellers and others, and capitalized for if 3s000,000, passed into the hands of r jceivers on the 11th. The group of mines includes the Colby, Tilden, Palm and Comet in Michigan, and the Super! a: in Wisconsin ou the Gogebic range. The po ulist state central committee of Kat sas has decided to abandon the idea o nominating a candidate for United 8 ates senator. On looking over the h .w in the case it was discovered that the Australian ballot law prohibits the printing of anything on the ticket but the names of candidates and the ti tie of the ticket. A sens* tional arrest was made at Terre Ha ute, Ind., on the 11th. when Harry Htmill, superintendent of the city won chouse, and Charles King, a saloonke eper, were arrested on a charge © robbing J. T. Tribble, a merchant of Turner, Clay county, of $300 while dr ink. A tari>V dispatch has been received at the Hawaiian legation in Washington which arrived by the Warrimoo at Vancouver. It advised the charge d'affaires. Mr. Hastings, that all is quiet at Honolulu and that Mr. Thurston was en route back to this country on the City of Peking. Sensational charges have been preferred against Mrs. Louisa Lightfoot, matron of the county infirmary at Findlay, O., by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty. She is charged with, having scalded John Fletcher, an inmate, with boiling water, and afterward applying a mustard plaster to his

oaiu in du. , In the district court at Salina, Kas., on the 11th* the case of Adams vs. The City of Salina was concluded s.nd the jury returned a verdict allowing two dollars damages to Adams (colored) for the loss of his son, who was hanged by a mob last April. Adams sued for $5,000. The widow of William Makepeace Thackeray, the distinguished English author, died on the 11th. of apoplexy at Adel Lodge, Leigh, Essex, a private asylum, where she had been living for the past forty years. Mbs. Caroline Talbot, the Qua* kefess who has preached all- Over the United States and England during the last twenty-five years, died,, on the llth, at Mount Pleasant, O. With fitting yet simple ceremony Hon. Frank D. Jackson was inaugurated governor of Iowa at Des Moines, on the llth, succeeding Hon. Horace Boies. ~ Dispatches received from Rio Janeiro, on the 12th, state that five men were killedJbyThe bursting of a cannon on the insurgent war ship (Almirante Tamandare. The molders of Gallipolis, O., have gone out on a strike, caused by a reduction of 10 pec cent, in their wages. The trouble promises to be of long duration. A dispatch dated Pernambuco says that the crew of the dynamite cruiser Nictheroy refuse to further serve on her unless their wages are paid in advance. The United States cruiser San Francisco, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Benham, arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 12th. * Robert E. Preston, nominated to be director to the mint,,was confirmed on the 12th. The Jesuit college at Antwerp was burned on the llth; loss, $200,000. The income tax and the other internal revenue features of the tariff bill will be reported as a separate measure

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thk senate was not in session on the ISt'a........In the house the president’s message transmitting the supplement tary Hawaiian correspondency to congress was received and referred to the committee on foreign affairs. The joiut resolution authorizing Gen. 0. O. Howard to accept from the president of the Freneh republic the decoration of a commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor was passed without objection. JUDGl Bradley, of Washington, on the application of Judge Long, of Sli higan. for a mandamus to restrain the commissioner of pensious from suspet ding the payment of the applicant’s pet sion, has decided in favor of the applicant on the ground that one commissioner has no right, under the law, to eopen a pension case that has once been legally adjudicated by his predecessor. except in cases where fraud is charged. The weekly statement of the associa ed banks of New York for the week en: ed on the 18th showed the following ch: nges: Reserve, increase, $877,025; lot. is, decrease, $622,200; specie, increase, $7,230,800; legal tenders,increase, $3,104,000; deposits, increase, $9,889,100; cir> ulation, decrease, $60,900. The Wilson avenue barns of the Cleveland (O.) Electrifi Railway Co. we e burned Saturday morning. The fire was undoubtedly of incendiary origin. Eighteen motors and twelve tlti lers were consumed; loss, estimit ed at $60,000. I Associate Justice Brewer, of the e$£ ith circuit, has re-appointed Eugene G. Hays United States attorney for the district of Minnesota, his term having expired and the president not having filled the vacancy. The Central Labor union of Chicago, at ,he request of the police, decided ags inst a street procession when they prevented thier petition for work to. the city on the night of the 15th. 3 iports, exclusive of specie, at the por o of New York for the week ended on 3th w ere $9,128,200, of which $2,428,Slfc were general merchandise and $6,69ft 382 dry goods. It is said ihat Capt. Wilson and his en. re party, who were annihilated by the forces of King Lobengula beyond the Shanghai river, died fierhting hard. I r. and Mrs. Gladstone left their Dc ming-street residence in London, on the 13th, en route to Biarritz, Fra ace. On the 13th the New York associated ba, ks held $92,583,675 in excess of the re;; airements of the 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. • The democrats of the first congressional district met in convention in Evansville the other day and elected George W. fihanklin. editor of the Evansville Courier, chaiigian of district committee, and. member of the state central committee. Resolutions were adopted, favoring free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver in the ratio of sixteen to one, and by the abolition of all forms of paper money except treasury notes. The democrats of Indiana elected the following state central confmitteemen at their .various district conventions throughout the state, a few days since: First district, John G. Shank lin; second, Thos. B. Buskirk; third, Isaac P. Leyden; fourth, Win. H. O’Brien; fifth, W. C. Duncan; sixth. John M. Loutz; seventh, Thos. Taggard; eighth, Thos. J. Mann; ninth, W. M. Blackslock; tenth, M. M. Hathaway; eleventh, J. A. M. Kintz; twelfth, Judge Allen Zollers; thirteenth, W. Q. Conrad. I Wm. Fuboj.', aged 19, was instantly killed near Mun<*ie by a tree falling on him. His head was erushed beyond recognition. He was assisting in felling timber. Ox Ndveml>er 18 Mrs. Hollingsvc rth and her four children left Union City for the west, spending -a short time in Richmond in route.. When near St Louis the mother ami two children met death in a railroad accident and the remaining two children were started back to Richmond to their friends, but have never arrived, and have not since been heard of. It is claimed they §re in Richmond, but all search fails to find

LUC III. The sixth congressional district of democrats met at Richmond and elected John M. Loutz a member of the state central committee. They passed resolutions indorsing the Wilson tariff bill and indorsing U. S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees as the nominee of the democratic party for president in 189<:. Burglars broke into Vansant's and F. J. Engleiield’s stores at Lena, near Greencastle, and carried off nearly the entire stock. The litigation growing out of the Franklin P. Nelson assignment at Greencastle has been compromised. Twenty-two hundred acres of land were deeded to the creditors of Nelson, while Nelson’s wife was given the family Residence and allowed to retain. $18,000. .. William Pate, residing three miles ' from Jeffersonville, early the other morning shot and, it is said, mortally wounded Benson Veasey, a prominent farmer. Veasey of late has been missing chickens, and he accused Pate of being the thief. Veasev, it is said, found a number of his fdwls concealed on Pate’s place. S<T~enraged did Pate become over the charge that he procured a shotgun and fired upon his accuser. Pate made his escape. From the will of Mrs. Henrietta ; Meyers, an eccentric old lady of Decatur, who has been living a.one for years, which j* was probated the other morning, it is learned that her entire estate, amounting to about Si.0,000, is bequeathed to the poor of New York city. William Niback is named as executor. Alex M. McCurdy,wanted at Golden, 1 CoL, on a charge of murder,was arrested at Martinsville by City Marshal Mills, who will receive $200 reward. Judge Baker decided against the city of Indianapolis in a case wherein the city attempted to retain a forfeit of j $31,000 deposited by Coffin «fc Stanton, i brokers of New York city, who had i contracted to buy bonds to the amount ; of $600,000. Coffin <Sr Stanton refused to take the bonds, owing to alleged informality in the issue. James Scircle, whose saloon at Tailholt was wrecked by temperance worn- : en, attempted to secure warrants j against them, but the state’s attorney j refused to issue them. Albert Bush, of Hammond, while hunting, shot off both hapds. A letter has just been returned from the dead letter office to LaPorte that was sent" from LaPorte by N. Weber fourteen years ago. It contained a sum of money for an address in New York. It has been lj-ing in the dead letter office at Washington, and the explanation is that it was found in the desk of a clerk who had recently been

removed. Four years a go Emma Huston, who lives near Seymour, w^ote a note in a sentimental moment, and, having consigned it to a corked bottle, she gave it to the waters of the Blue river to carry where they would For .four years Miss Huston heard nothing from the , note. A few days ago Frank Always, . while digging in a gravel bank, found the bottle buried beneath four feet of deposit. It was within two miles of i Rockport There has been no wed- j ding. The superior courtroom, Brazil, was packed to suffocation to hear the argument in the Elias Ovsens murder case. The jury the other evening rendered a verdict sentencing the defendant to the j prison south for life. Owens shot and j killed James Biggs at Clay City, June 8. Mrs. Geo. Kuerlt, of Valparaiso, suddenly recovered her speech, lost twenty-three years ago, when she heard of a railroad accident in which her brother was killed The Orphans’ • home at Columbus j now shelters S6 inmates. land leased in the Muncie gas belt, and | the wells will be drained to supply gas to the Lima lO.) fields. HEALTH AND HYGIENE. ' •Eat plain food. 3 Be regular in yo\ir habits. Begin your morning meal with fruit, j DoN’Tgo to work immediately after j eating. Rise in the morning soon after you are awake. .. % Be moderate in the use of liquids at all seasons. If possible,go to bed at the same hour every night. A sponge bath of cold or tepid water should be followed by friction with towei or hand.—Good Housekeeping.

CHAIRMAN WILSON Opens the Debate on the Tariff Bill in the House, --:-— / .tad Endeavors, hi Forcible Language, to Place the Blane for Ex Is tins; Conditions Wt sre. ln His Oplnj Ion, t Belongs. Following is i synopsis of the openling- speech in tl 3 debate on the tariff 'bill in the house of representatives, delivered by Hon. William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, hairman of the committee on tvays tnd means. MR. WI SOS’S SPEECH. Mr. Wilson said hat no great question had Peen so thorough 1 brought out before the American people a the questloa of tariff reform. For seven t icccssive congresses I t had Ijecn the chief m: ter of controversy in: both liouses. For alar t as long a period It had lieen the chief n tter of controversy in the press of the c^un ry. in every congressional district, in the sc ooihouse and at th9 countary store. Thus t iroughly discussed, both as lo general princi] es and 0k to its practical 'workings, the pe pie had finally reached a definite judgment und given to this administration definite ir tructions. ! With the house s the immediate representative of the people, the only part of our federal government resti { directly upon popular suffrage. Is the cons itutlonal authority to originate bills imposi g taxes. The bill about to lie considered pr* *nts a scheme of tariff reI'orm prepared b; the appropriate committee of the house, wb: h it was now for the house to consider and to cl al with in its own deliberate judgment.! * A Every bill cove ing so wide a field of legislation and dealing rith so many subjects must necessarily rep sent in its details some compromise of opiut n among those intrustgjJb with t.he preparation >f ft. Any bill passecfhy Congress under pres nt conditions at least must

ncbcwdni) repr scut »ucu tumprumise. DIFFIC1 LTIE3 ENCOUNTERED. He did not be ieve that the country would underrate the di lenities confronting those who now attempted t:» revise and reform ouir tarifT system. Among these difficulties were the dropping away o friends whose zeal for reform was in proporth n to the distance from their own localities tad their own industries, and other friends wi o differed in Judgment as to the method now o te pursued, So also the gr at commercial distress which lias in recent ninths come upon the country, paralyzing so i any industries and throwing so many on of employment, made the i,ask oT reform more difficult, while* it made the necessity {or reform more imiperative than ever. At what time could baxes be lessened with greater justice and greater humanity than at a time when thousands are struggi ng for the bare necessaries of l ife, and when could we with greater timeliness and benefit strike some of the fetter* from production and trade than when production is oppressed by its burdens and trade hampered Iby its restrietions. v A third difficulty in the way of reform now was the emptiness of the treasury. We are called upon to reduce taxes at a time when government revenues are running so low that they (fail to meet daily expenditures. He believes 'He could not better .consume the time of the laouse in opening this debate than by giving the story of our depleted treasury and placing the responsibility for its present straits where that responsibility justly belonged. PLUNGED INTO BANKRUPTCY. During the four years of the last administration we had plunged headlong from an oversowing treasury to a bankrupt treasury, and that, too, without any lessening of the burdens of taxation upon the people, but rather by a most substantial and oppressive increase of the taxes, The last import of Secretary Pairchild estimated the surplus revenue for the rear 1889 at $101,000,001. The first report of Secretary Windom acknowledged a surplus revenue for that year of $103.001.(MX). When the Cleveland administration went out of office on the 4th of March, 1888. it turned over to its successors an available cash balance amounting to $183,000,000. During Harrison administration the form of treasury statements .was twice changed—first by .Mr. Windom* who succeeded to this cash balance, to conceal the surplus and latter by Mr. Foster. to cftnreal the bankruptcy of the treasury. The Fifty-first congress dealt with the treasury surplus after the true and traditional method of protection, which was to lesson or abolish those taxes which pass directly and uncMmihished from the pockets of the tax payer to the public treasury, and to increase those taxes which were intercepted in their passage from the pockets <of the tax payer to the public treasury by the private toll gatherer. The McKinley bill reduced the internal revenue tax on manufactured tobacco, abolishing special taxes on dealers and manufacturers of tobacco and wijfed out the duties on raw sugar, which for years past had been our chief revenue-producing articles on the customs list. SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TOUCHED. Both of those taxes were in a just and proper sense revenue taxes, and neither of them should have been touched so long as the rates of duty upon clothing and other necessary articles of consumption were so enormously oppressive. Tobacco taxes were reduced under the theory that tobacco had become a necessity for the poor as well as the rich, but new and heavier taxes were laid onthe woolen

L'lOlRiuK Ol bae^Jr mini, vu bis health and bis productive energy. Sugar was unlaxed to give the American workingman a free breakfast table,* but new taxes were placed on his cups and saucers, his plates and dishes, his coffee, pot, his knives and forks, his food .and his table cover. In a word, he was relieved from the taxes he paid his government in order that he might be made to pay much greater taxes to the beneficiaries of that bill. These rleased taxes would have yielded os in the interval since their omission more than 1150.000,000, and would hifve saved us from any danger of a treasury deficit. The magnificent surplus turned over by the Cleveland administration was thus scattered. A large portion of it was used to purchase, at. high premiums, bonds not yet due. In the first seven months of the Harrison administration 170,000.000 of bonds were thus purchased at premiums ranging 5 to 8 per cent, on the bonds of 1891 and from 27 to 29 per cent, on the bonds due in 1907. In the first five months of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1890, over 898,000.000 were disbursed in the payment of bonds and I in the prepayment of interest not yet due. But even this did not dissipate the surplus, end the Fifty-first congress was obliged to try its hand upon it. It refunded the direct tax to the states—a mere log-rolling scheme to get at the treasury surplus—which Mr. Cleveland had vetoed when attempted in the previous congress. A PURE GRATUITY. 'fhis was a pure gratuity, but it has taken out of the treasury over 814.000,00a Next came the sugar bounty act. under which sum: amounting to (17,003.000 have been paid tc sugar growers. Last of alk as the chief mean of distributing the surplus, was the dt pendent pension bill, under whic ... our annual pension expenditure has rise i more than 860,000.030. Whatever right t • justice there might have been in this hill it 3 very certain it wcmld never havebecocae a la • but that those cither pensioners—the protect 1 industries—might have the first pull and t.e largest profit out of the taxes gathered to p y the pensioners Neither must it be forgott n in this .story of a depleted treasury that t ie Sherman law turned over to the last'admin stration as available cash a trust fund of £ 1,000.000 deposited by national banks to rede m their notes, nor that Secretary Foster chan ed the form of tha treasury statement by adding to it 820,000,003 of subsidiary and mi ior coins as part of its available cash. If. then, to the more than 8200.000,<330 t ins made uway with by the last administi atioi we should add the $150,000,030 loss of revenu- by the omission of taxes on tobacco and s gar alone, we should have a clear idea of 'the t ,pld and headlong steps by which we have teen brought to our present empty treasury He did not believe those who voted to put th last administration in sower expected any ret sion

frcmit it !h» dim Ion *i increasing rate*. The camp , a of W was fought on the qaewtioa of rrating t 4 reducing the existing tariff and i t on the loestion of revising and raising tb > art* of 1 S3 DAB tb SOT AS! DORK PR^TBCTIOH. * Nosing' interest n the country, either''its. congress or elsewfce e, had the hardihood to assert thav it meant to demand any increase of the pro ction accorded it by the bill of 1883. and i as only the wantonnees of selfgreed. rap ; ity and telfishness and the knowledge that their dene mds. no matter how exorbitant. ft odld be graciously accorded that brought them to Wi.shingion In 1893 to write upon their own interests. the successive schedule i of the McKinley bill. Under the operation of that bill, taxes in every pee of tao important schedules have been mercilessly and needlessly increased. In t te manufactures of wool they had been raLssd from an average of 50 to an average of 100 percent. In manufactures of glass they bad been raised from an average of 5* to an average f 81 per cent. In manufactures of iron and steel, although tSe year of 1887 had been a year of immense production and prosperity tc those interests, the tariff was raised from an. average of 38 to an aver-.>' age of 83 per cent. On common goods, although the t riff of 1883 had been made by th: manufacturers themselves, duties '/ere increased from an average of 40 to an average of 57 per cent. Such is the bill va have been called on to re- | vise in the inters t of the people who consume, | of the people w o labor, and of the people j comprising the ountry in general, and of tho prosperity of tht country itself.... Mr. Wilson's peroration was forcible and i eloquent. He b gan with a reference to the I legend which 1 a said had always been ini scribed on the democratic banner: “Equal Rights to All an 1 Special Privileges to None." The people ha t brought the Democratic party into power on tli broad principle of equal justice to alL “The detnoc atic party,“ he concluded, “raises Uself at one man takes up this great cause, plants it standard here to sink or swim, j survive or peri h. that the deinocratic party i may continue in power.” (Democratic ap

pKiuso. ‘•We'wllt plant the banner hero. We mean to have a fight and we will call every true believer In demo racy to rally to oar side. Let us call upon Xt ) American people. The silent masses, the farmers, scattered, unable to organize, who plod their way under the burdens of taxat; n. Our petition boxes are filled with protests f the trusts and combinations of this country. Let us be true to our faith. Let us go forward until we make this a country where every man shall see the gateway of opportunity ciening before him; where every' man shall se s before him the opportunity to rise to such i fluence. to such prosperity as his •own merits justify, not weighted down with burdens of t; cation. Let us labor for a country free to al . equal to all. with opportunities planted in ev ery home, in every humble fireside in the land.*' ; * As he finis hed the democratic side broke into cheers, and wave of applause swept the galleries. 3 ■ CHI NESE SMUGGLERS. _ * Their Wo derful Ingenuity in Secreting Contraband Goods. San Fr incisco customs officers have to deal with the most skillful smugglers in the world. The stolid, impassive demeanor of the Chinese serves them admirably in their contraband operatic s, for their actions seldom afford, as in the case frequently with white p ople. . any ground to suspect them ol fraud. A California writer gives an interesting expose of the many tricks tl.ey practice: “llefc *e the influx of Chinese laborers was st( pped, a Mongol, looking as if all hisv ears were acquainted with only poverty and toil, would sometimes try to sne-ik ashore with an old blouse stuffed full of fine silk handkerchiefs and scarfs and Indian neck shawls. The Cl nese garment forjcold weather is a quilted blouse or tunic, with & heavy illing of cotton. Silk handkerchiefs being: light and fine, a single blouse would sometimes contain a valuable nvoiee. “Sometimes n demure Chinese maidea would step ashore with, the thick soles of her shoes stuffed with silk. A whole covey arrived some years ago with their shoes stuffed in this f shion. An inquisitive inspector had I is attention attracted to the extraor .linary thickness of the soles, and made an investigation, which resulted in a aluable seizure. “To a man the Chinese crews on the steamer ply mg between San Francisco and Mexico, South America and the orien t are smugglers. ‘“2 hey hide their contraband goods in t- etoddest places imaginable, and get ahem ashore past the eyes of the cus* oms officers in ways that almost * f. bafi.e detection. * “They have throught opium skill- jT

M.XAA J oiuiivw *** v«uwu(«a obiu. uuu^iU^ to he stalk, and in oranges. One day abput six years ago a Chinese, dressed as't cook, walked leisurely down the ga igplank of a Pacific mail steamer wi ha basket on his arm containing se eral loaves of bread, r ‘He shuffled right'by a customs house of icer, and would have got away all right, but on the wharf came intq colli ion with a drunken sailor. The s ilor, who was to blame gave the Chir ise a violent shove, sending him s jrawlitag and scattering his bread loaves. ‘ “A policeman interfered, and noticed hat one of the loaves had broken open. Ie started to examine, and the Chinese tarted to run. Every loaf was filled ,vith opium. “Chinese have been detected with boxes of the drug deftly bound in their queues or tied under Gieir arms. Every bit of baggage and e^\ry article they take ashore is a hiding if>lace. “Beams on ships and tal^re-legs have been hollowed out as leceptacles foi contraband opium. False bottoms are put in cubby holes and pantry draw* ers. Hiding places are sought in coalbunkers, and unddfr the engines and boilers. j “The methods of the secretion are so varied and ingenious that frequently the officers are unable to find smuggled opium, even after they have definite in? formation that it is aboard a vessel.”— Golden Days. —Hard luck seems to attend Joseph Smith, of Pittsburgh, Pa. He was engaged to marry Miss Annie Nugent, but an accident, by which he lost a leg, caused a postponement of the ceremony. Months elapsed, and again a day was set. To celebrate the nuptials in a proper manner, he ordered a new artificial leg. When it arrived,, it, did not fit, and again the wedding was postponed. —The value of the railroads in th« United States is greater than the combined railroad valuation of Great Britain, France and Germany.